Leaves usually with scattered hairs below. Flowers in lax cymes; peduncles often hairy throughout; ovary densely villous, rarely only the apex with a tuft of dense villous hair, style 1–2(–2.5) mm long. Flowers Sep.–Dec.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GleP, GGr. Mainly occurs in mallee vegetation or open woodland in the Wimmera, with isolated records further south near Nelson, and north in the Big Desert and Wyperfeld National Park.
This taxon is characterised by its densely villous ovary. See note under Billardiera cymosa subsp. pseudocymosa.